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Citizens Committee Poses 17 Questions To Council On Public Pool
Here is a list of questions wTiich George Kalenich, spokes­man
for a citizens committee in support of a public pool in
Lititz, submitted to Borough Council a t th e ir meeting Tuesday.
Each councilman was given a copy.
Since it became ap p a ren t to th e people of Lititz th a t the
Borough Council was not interested in following the mandate of
the people—with rega rd to the public swimming pool—many
questions have been asked, by th e people of Lititz, to different
members of the Pool Committee. There were a g rea t many
questions, but certain ones came up consistently. We a re list­ing
them below. As residents and voters of Lititz, we request
th a t th e Borough Council apswer them.
1. If 900 families signed up for membership in a public pool,
can Borough Council honestly say th a t $175,000 would
build a pool big enough? If not, .then why the figure of
900 families?
2. The people of L ititz are aware th a t Borough Council had
several meetings with engineers and pool builders. We
a re interested in th e findings.brought out a t.th e s e meet­ings.
How big a pool would be needed for the number of
people in this a re a? How many family units would you
need as members in order to make a COMPLETE go of
it? How big a pool does Manheim have? What is th e
difference in the number of people in th e ir are a com­pared
to ours? Is th e ir pool a HIT or a FAILURE?
3. We have heard many times th a t Borough Council is under
a heavy work load. Why haven’t they taken th e example
of Manheim and appointed a Pool Cdmmission to tak e on
th e work of planning and building the pool?
4. Common quotes__“We voted for th e pool! Doesn’t the
rules of the land apply in Lititz? Doesn’t th e majority
vote mean anything? We don’t see why we must sign
an application. We feel our word is good enough. Doesn’t
Borough Council tru s t the people of L ititz ? ”
5. Doesn’t Borough Council and “Realistic” know th a t tax­payers
in Lititz a re RENTERS AS WELL as homeowners?
6. For years, before the Warwick Union School was built, the
Borough Council contributed an amount of money to keep
the' athletic field in good condition. Would they not
deem the pool as equally a worthy project for a monetary
contribution SHOULD THE POOL NOT QUITE BE a
financial success?
7. Are the voters of Lititz to assume th a t regardless of what
a vote in an election shows, th a t the Borough Council
holds itself as final judge as to whether or not th e voters
know what they are doing?
8. Why did Borough Council put th e referendum on th e bal­lot,
if they had no intention of carrying out the will of
the people? If they were legally a n d /o r morally obligated
then, why not NOW?
9. Should and when Borough Council decide to build a com­fort
station, will they put it on th e ballot? Then, should
it pass by a majority vote, will they send out applications
to the people to ascertain whether or not the people will
guarantee they will put th e ir dimes in the slot and thus
make the comfort station a financial success?
10. Manheim sta rted construction of th e ir pool April 1st,
1958 and it was opened to the public Ju ly 4th, 1958.
Can’t we in Lititz do as well?
11. Is Borough Council aware th a t th e applications went out
as “ JUNK MAIL” and was trea ted as such by th e majority
of people. This meant th a t many of th e applications were
ju st filed under “W” .
12. This is the first time th a t th e people of Lititz have had an
opportunity to vote on an expenditure of money. Yet,
when they voted yes in the majority, they a re getting th e
run-around. What goes?
13. L et’s not keep mentioning Woodridge. This is a private
swimming pool to which the public is not admitted. The
HAVES have th e ir pool, the HAVENOTS want th e ir public
pool and WILL support it. Do they have to throw in an
arm and leg to convince Borough Council?
14. Who paid to have th e applications printed and mailed?
How much? WHY?
15. WHY CAN’T WE HAVE THE POOL WE VOTED FOR?
WHY NOT THIS SUMMER THAT IS THE YEAR OF
1959?
16. Does Borough Council feel th a t when th e pool is built
th a t only the people who signed applications will use it.
Won’t others pay for using it and thus add to the income?
17! A point of interest. NO MEMBER OF THE SWIMMING
POOL COMMITTEE OR OF THEIR FAMILY WROTE
THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR PRINTED IN THE
RECORD EXPRESS ON FEBRUARY 12th. WE JUST
WANT TO SAY “THANKS” TO THE PERSON WHO
WROTE IT. YOU EXPRESSED OUR SENTIMENTS
PERFECTLY'.
Early to bed and early
to rise, and your head will
never feel three times its
size!
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Special Council Meeting On Pool Set Tuesday
Sign Rule
Revised
By Lititz
Borough Council Tuesday
set down a hard and fast rule
on advertising signs. From now
on council won’t permit any
sign to be erected which is
larger th an six feet.
Bringing the sign issue to
the fore were two requests for
signs which were placed before
council.
Charles Lehman, who will
open a new garage building
and service station a t 117 W.
Lincoln Ave., has already erect­ed
a sign and council said it
will be measured to se e whether
it conforms with the ruling.
Requesting signs were Krei-d
e r TV Service, E. Main St.,
wihich wanted to putt up “ an
overhanging sign t o project
seven feet from thei building
to light up the sidewalk bet­te
r ” and Paes Upholstery, 210
S. Broad St., which received
temporary permission to erect
a sign and now wants to leave
it hanging.
Council, a f te r oontroversey
about a sign erected a t Doster’s
m a rke t when it was renovated,
had said it would consider each
request for signs individually.
Tuesday they reversed the
decision when Councilman Roy
S. Reidenbaugh recommended
a “ firm basis to opera te o n ” be
set regarding signs. Council­man
Harry Ruley said the boro
wasn’t objecting to signs, but
ra th e r the size of them.
The ruling limiting size to
six feet was then passed. Krei-d
e r Bros, will be advised to get
a sign to conform with it. Leh­man’s
sign will be measured to
see if it conforms an d the Paes
sign Is wiithin th e regulations
as they now stand, council ru l­ed.
Paul H. Bomberger
New Bank President
Paul H. Bomberger 500 S.
Broad St., was elected president
of the Farmers National Bank
to fill the vacancy caused by
tth e d e a th t of Henry B. Gibbel,
a t a meeting of the board of
directors held Monday morn­ing.
T
wo other changes announc­ed
were the elections of Alfred
L. Douple as cashier in addition
to being tru s t officer and vice
president, and the naming of
Judge Joseph B. Wissler as
chairman of the board of direc­tors.
PTA Winter
Barbecue
Saturday
Tickets will be available a t
th e (joor for th e chicken barbe­cue
to be held on Saturday,
Feb. 28 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00
p.m. in th e cafeteria of th e Ele­mentary
school building by th e
P a re n t Teachers Association.
The announcement was made
by Omar Bucher, general chair­man
of th e affair. Bucher also
appealed for more help and
anyone willing to assist should
call MA 6-2398.
Patrons using th e cafeteria
should enter by th e Cedar
Street door. The cafete ria is
in the basement of th e building.
The take-outs will b e served a t
the main entrance a n d these
patrons are requested to use
Orange street.
T h i menu includes one hqlf
chicken, potato chips, apple
lauce or cole slaw, buns, ice-ream,
coffee or orange drink,
dult Tickets are $1.50, chil-ren
$1.00. Cakes and pies
ill be on sale in the cafeteria.
The barbecue pits will be on
the lot a t the Western Auto
store but no sales will be made
a t the pits. The barbecue will
be held regardless of th e weath­er.
This replaces th e annual
sea food dinner.
Hammer Creek Gets
Trout Quota Tues.
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Trout will be stocked in the
dower Hammer Creek on Tues­day,
March 3.
The Fish Commission truck
will be a t the Post Office a t
10:30 a.m. and anyone wishing
to help should report there. The
annual spring stocking program
has listed 2,040 tro u t for
stocking in the creek.
Paul H, Bomberger
Legion Cited
For Violation
Garden Spot Post 56, Ameri­can
Legion has been cited for a
liquor law violation and will be
given a hearing in Harrisburg
thip morning (Thursday) at
10 a.m.
The citation is for allegedly
selling bo non-members'. Robert
Martin, Lititz R4, legion ste­ward,
and Harry Ruley, legion
officer, will be present a t Har­risburg.
Balmer Denied
Two Requests
Boruogh Council Tuesday d e ­clined
to pay the cost of ru n n ­ing
water laterals into the curbs
in th e Balmer development.
Robert Balmer, contractor,
has made the request. Council
also denied a request th a t they
plant tre e s in th e Balmer de­velopment
if Balmer purchased
them.
50 Years Service
Mr. Bomberger completed
fifty years of continuous bank­ing
service last June when he
was honored by the Pennsyl­vania
Bankers Association a t
the ir annual convention in At­lantic
City. He began his
career as a clerk In the Lititz
National Bank in 1908.
In the following year he join­ed
the Farmers National Bank
where he became cashier and
secretary in 1932. He was
elected vice president of the
bank in 1954.
He has been very active in
both the county and sta te bank­ing
associations and is a grad ­uate
of the American In stitu te
of Banking. He has served for
many years as a member of the
Federal Reserve Relations com­mittee
of th e sta te association.
He has served as a tru ste e
for the Moravian congregation
and as tre a su re r of the church
and th e Springs P ark commit­tee
for a period of 28 years. He
also is a past president and
past secretary of the Lititz Ro­ta
ry Club.
Having served overseas with
the 79 th Division during World
War I, he became a ch a rte r
member of the Garden Spot
Post No. 56 of th e American
Legion here immediately fol­lowing
the war.
Firemen Answer
Two Brush Calls
Lititz firemen were called
to the home David G. Sam-met,
17 S. Locust St., about noon
Tuesday, when burning trash
ignited a hedge.
Firemen said Mrs. Sammet
had the fire extinguished with
a bucket of water by the time
they arrived. Firemen also an­swered
a call to the home of
Leslie Zimmerman, E. Market
St., last Friday, when' trash
burning ignited some grass in
a rea r yard. There was no dam­age
in either case.
FIREMEN’S SMOKER
AT BRUNNERVILLE
The annual smoker of the
Brunnerville Fire Company will
be held in th e new firehouse
Tuesday, March 3. Dinner will
he served a t 6:30 p.m. Harry
Gring, of Reinholds, will be the
speaker of the evening. All
members a re urged to attend.
Boro Men On Ski
Trip To Europe
Two Lititz ski enthusiasts
this week are trying th e storied
slopes of Austria and will visit
historic St. Moritz in Switzer­land
next month, courtesy of
a bargain to u r arranged by
Ski Clubs across Pennsylvania.
The Lititz men are Dr. H.
B. Minnich, 410 Woodcrest
Ave., and James H. Yerger,
105 West End Ave., who de­parted
la st Saturday on h ski­ing
.trip which would capture
the fancy of anyone who ever
strapped a pair of barrel staves
on his feet.
Both men a re members of
the Lancaster Ski Club. They
have been skiing for the past
dozen years and tried many of
the famous slopes the United
States and Canada have to of­fer.
M
innich, ju s t before d ep a rt­ing
for Europe, re tu rn ed from
a two-week ski trip of the
New England States with his
wife, Margaret.
Saturday h e an d Yerger
II L. Consley
took off on th e tr e k which
will see them back here on
March 15, and which will
cover th e best skiing coun­try
in th e world; Austria
and Switzerland.
The trip was arranged by the
Federated Ski Clubs of Penn­sylvania
which interested 71
members in the idea. The ski
bugs cha rtered a plane which
flew them direct to Munich,
Germany, where they will
spend six days.
P lan Reunion
Minnich said last Friday,
th a t arrangements were made
ahead of time to have a Lititz
native meet th e plane a t Mun­ich.
He is Maj. Fred Gochen-auer,
who is stationed in Ger­many
with the United States
Army. Gochenauer is a friend
of both Minnich and Yerger.
From Munich th e ski club
members will travel :by bus to
Kitzbuehel, Austria, and then
tran sfe r via cable ca r to Hotel
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Sportsmen’s
Ox Roast On
March 11th
Man Faces
School
Law Case
Lititz Sportsmen will hold
th e ir annual Ox Roast on Wed­nesday,
March 11, with enter-,
tainment furnished by an ama­teu
r big game hu n te r and o u t­door
writer, H. .L. “Bill” Con­sley,
of York.
The a ffair will be held a t the
IOOF Hall, Broad St., sta rtin g
a t 6:30 p.m.
chases for York Division .of
Consley, director of pur-
Borg-Warner Corp., hunts in
his .spare time and has a p a rti­cular
love for th e big game
animals found in th e cold coun­tries.
He has successfully hunted
deer, elk, moose, black bear,
caribou, grizzly bear, white
whale, polar bear, walrus and
the Kodiak bear.» He has pub­lished
a number of stories In
“Outdoor Life” on his exper­iences
and a story on his wal­rus
hu n t is due for.publication.
Conley will 'ta lk and illus­tra
te his ta lk with 150 color
slides. Sportsmen said they
are seeking to get a speaker
from the Pennsylvania Fiijh
Commission to round out the
program.
Walter Bard, president of
th e sportsmen is in charge of
the program. Master of cere­monies
will be Marvin Miller,
editor of the Record.
Justice of the Peace J. B.
Herr last n ight issued a war­ran
t for the a rre st of C. V.
Stoltzfiis, Lititz R4, charged
with failing to send his son,
Paul, to school.
Stoltzfus was warried Dec.
4, 1958 about failing to com­ply
with the attendance laws.
On Feb. 19, Supervising P rin ­cipal
G. Marlin Spaid said,
Paul was Illegally absent again.
Squire Herr issued th e war­rant.
At a hearing la st night a
charge of driving while under
suspension was retu rn ed to
court against David Forry Jr.,
Lititz R3. Borough Policeman
Lloyd H. Long testified the al­leged
violation occurred Feb.
5, when Forry was seen driv­ing.
U
nder question by Atty.
John W. Beyer., Long said he
didn’t know a t th e time For-ry’s
license had been suspend­ed
but learned so the next day.
A w arran t was sworn out fo r
his arrest. Forry posted $500
bail for Ju n e term of court.
Also prosecuted by borough
police were Arlene L. Minnich,
Lancaster, Delbert Miller,
Pottsville, and Robert W. Claw­son,
32 3 W. Lemon St., driving
too fast for conditions. Claw­son
was also charged with pass­ing
double over an intersection.
State Police charged two
motorists with failure to stop
for the red blinking signals a t
the Reading Railroad crossing.
Charles C. Groff, L ititi R l,
and Samuel E. Martin, Man­heim
R3, p&id the fine and
costs on the charges.
! ■» /s ¥ Boro Denies Issue
Being Dodged; 17
At Council Meeting
A citizens’ group marched on 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
borough council Tuesday night, borough office. Members of
accused them of dragging th e ir the citizens group which num-feet
on the construction of a
proposed public swimming pool
and was granted a special meet­ing
with council and members
of the Lititz Planning Commis­sion
next Tuesday.
The meeting will be held a t
D. C. Stroud
BORO TO HOST ASSN.
X-RAY UNIT COMING
The mobile X-ray u n it of th e
County Tuberculosis Society
will be at th e Wilbur Chocolate
Co., Thursday, March 5, s ta rt­ing
a t 12:30 p.m.
Lititz will host the meeting
of the Lancaster County
Borough’s' Assn., Miarch 18, a t
the Lititz Legion, It was an­nounced
this week.
Lititz Gets Ready
For Spring Cleaning
A stre e t sweeper will be
rented for the borough to its
spring stre e t cleaning, council
decided Tuesday.
The sweeper, a wet sweeper,
will cost $225 a week. I t will
come in th e first week in April
and do all the borough’s streets.
The old dry sweeping method
was unsatisfactory, i council
said, and it costs too much to
buy a stre e t sweeper which is
a $10,000 item.
Lititz Man
To Manage
Legion Post
Densil C. “Den” Stroud,
Lititz R2, a retired Naval of-,
ficer, has been appointed man­ager
of the E p h ra ta American
Legion, Post 429, effective
March 1, it was announced
this week.
Stroud succeeds John Shard
who has accepted a position in
Baltimore, Md. A native of
Marengo, Ind., Stroud retired
from the U. S. Navy on Sept,
years service.
He comes to th e Legion with
1, 1957 a fte r more th an 30
an extensive . background of
Officers Club management and
food administration experience.
He has l)a dthe Lititz are a as
his home address for th e past
15 years and hàs been living a t
Lititz R2, ju st west of the
borough, since his retirement
with the ran k of Chief War­ra
n t Officer.
He is married to th e former
Kathryn Grumbling of Lititz.
Canvass For
Ambulance
Dues Mon.
Family subscriptions to the
Warwick Community Ambu­lance
for 1959 become due on
April 1, the ambulance com­mittee
reminded th is week.
A house to house canvass
is planned in the borough on
Monday, Miarch 2, with the pur­pose
to sign up ambulance ser­vice
subscribers. Out of town
residents' will receive appli­cations
my mail. The family
subscription rate is the same as
last year, $2.
I t covers any member of a
household living a t one address.
Ambulance committee members
urged residents not to give any
money to persons unless they
receive a membership card in
return. The 1959 membership
cards are green in color.
The amibulancè average®
about 350 trip s yearly. Last
year 1,600 families joined the
ambulance service.
Committee members also re ­ported
th e ambulance garage
is completed exoept fo r some
outside painting and grading
which cannot be done until the
weather breaks.
Girl Scouts Combined
Program At Ree Tonight
Mrs. W. B. Franklin, Jr.,
of Rohrerstown will ta lk to th e
Senior Girl Scouts of Lititz on
“Girl Scouts Go to Canada” in
observance of International
Month. This jamboree will be
held on Thursday evening,
February 26th a t 7:00 p.m. in
the Bird Room of ,the Lititz
Recreation Center.
PLAN FOR SCOUT JAMBOREE TONIGHT
Mrs. F ran k lin is chairman
of the Girl Scout Field Com­mittee
and a member of the
Board of Directors'of th e Lan­caster
Cdunty Girl Scout Coun­cil.
She will show colored
slides of »a sixteen day to u r of
Quebec, Montreal, and , Ottawa
which she planned for the
Rohrerstown Senior Troop.
Carol Shank, Shirley Waltz,
Linda Wertsch and Mrs. Eu­gene
L. Bteffy, senior commit­tee
woman, a re in charge of
this activity. The Troops par­ticipating
are Troop 17, Mrs.
Robert Dull and Mrs. Cynthia
Sites, leaders: Troop 122, Mrs.
James Shank and Mrs. Edward
Pelger, leaders; Troop 146,
Mrs. Guy N. Bowman and Mrs.
Harry D. Eshleman, leaders.
bered 17, were pushing for the
construction of a pool for this
summer.
Council President Russel L.
Templeton denied council was
dragging its feet on th e pro­ject.
He said council met with
three architects and got three
different recommendations on
the size and cost of a pool
which would fill the needs of
the Lititz area.
“The pool has n o t been
sidetracked by any stre tch of
the imagination,” Templeton
said, “I t ’s a question of size
and how mnch we want to
spend.”
Templeton’s remarks came
afte r George Kalenich, 626
Kissel Hill Rd., spokesman for
the citizens group, noted th e
borough has been talking about
a public pool since October, had
a bond issue passed in Novem­ber
“and here we are four
months la ter and we’re no clos­er
to a pool than we were in
October.”
Although Kalenich appeared
to be the spokesman for the
group, other side questions
and comments heated up th e
session considerably.
One questioner inquired of
how many council members
were also members of Woojl-rige
Swim Club, a private fam­ily
membership pool, and
three; Templeton, Roy S. Reid­enbaugh
and Wallace Lausch
indicated they were. So did
Burgess Benjamin G. Forrest.
Councilman Harry Ruley said
he was a member of the Over­look
pool. ~
Carlos R. Ziegler, 448 S.
Walnut St., said some council-men
“really pushed Wood­ridge
pool when it came out.
Now why don’t you get behind
a public pool and push it for
us?”
Curtis E. Long, 103 E. Lin­coln
Ave., asked “How many,
if you didn’t belong to Wood­ridge,
would push this pool
along?”
Templeton said “ it was a dif­ferent
proposition to build a
public pool th an to build a
private one.” He pointed out
council has met 25 times since
the pool issue came up and has
had many other things to con­sider.
“ I object to having anyone
say I ’m dragging my feet. I ’m
not,” said the council president.
Templeton found it neces­sary
to twice use th e presi­dent’s
gavel to keep th e
meeting in order, as ques­tions
from th e individual
members of th e group were
being asked before a previous
one could be answered.
Kalenich said the group felt
voters gave council consent to
build the pool a t th e November
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Park Gets $900
Boro Donation
Borough Council Tuesday
donated $900 to th e operation
of Lititz Springs Park. Last
year the borough gave $350.
Park Committee members
submitted to th e borough thqir
financial statement which in­dicated
expenditures in 1958
totaled $10,394 and income was
$7,000, mostly from th e July
4th Celebration.
Boro To Repair
Present Office
And Fire House
Police Find Child's
Pair Of Spectacles
Local girls scouts plan for th e ir jamboree
tonight in th e Recreation Center which will
fe a tu re a “Girl Scouts fo to Canada” theme.
Scouts Linda Wertsch, d aughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Chester Wertsch, Shirley Waltz, daugh­te
r of Mr. an d Mrs. Daniel B. Waltz and
Carol Shank, d aughter of Dr. and Mrs. James
Shank, go over plans with Mrs. Engene L.
Steffy, senior committee woman.
A child’s pair of glasses has
been found on Cedar Street and
turned over to borough poli/ce.
The owner may claim them
by identifying the glasses upon
contacting any of the police
officers.
There’ll be no new borough
office and fire house in Lititz,
not for a good many years a t
least.
That was the decision coun­cil
made Tuesday when it de­cided
to renovate the present
borough building on Broad
Street. It has appropriated up
to $25,000 in the 1959 budget
for th a t purpose.
It was estimated it will take
a month to draw up plans and
another month to put out bide
and award them. Thus, the
actual work could be done d u r­ing
warm weather.
Council must replace the
sagging fire house floor, in sta !
a heating plant, spruce up the
outside of the building and re­place
the fire siren tower.
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